Prompto thought about just being truthful, and then he thought of a way to dress it up to make it sound better, and then he realized that there was really no other way to say it.
"Because I've been lazy and complacent here and I really need to step up my game," he said. "Especially if there's something really bad on the horizon. And it's not just that I'm barely good enough to hold my own. It's also that Iggy and Gladio are already Crownsguard, practically have been slated for those spots since they were born, and I'm just some guy who's only been around for a couple of years. Got some catching up to do, you know? And I can train here all I want, I can train with everyone here, too....you, Vette, Yang, Sidon....but it'll only get me so far, because we're supposed to be a team, Nina, a full unit. So I've gotta put in my time with them if I'm ever going to hope to be....half as good as I need to be."
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"Because I've been lazy and complacent here and I really need to step up my game," he said. "Especially if there's something really bad on the horizon. And it's not just that I'm barely good enough to hold my own. It's also that Iggy and Gladio are already Crownsguard, practically have been slated for those spots since they were born, and I'm just some guy who's only been around for a couple of years. Got some catching up to do, you know? And I can train here all I want, I can train with everyone here, too....you, Vette, Yang, Sidon....but it'll only get me so far, because we're supposed to be a team, Nina, a full unit. So I've gotta put in my time with them if I'm ever going to hope to be....half as good as I need to be."